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OCTOBER 16, 2012

textPlus , the maker of the popular texting application by the same name, said today that it has raised $18M in a new funding round, led by The Raine Group. Prior investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Matrix Partners and GRP Partners also participated in the funding.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2016

Southern California companies raised $2.49 The boost in funding came despite a lower overall deal count, with 89 funding deals in Q2, versus 97 in Q1. The big numbers were directly impacted by several large fundings in Southern California--most notably, a giant, $1.27 billion round for Venice based Snapchat.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. The Startup Garage is located physically in Marina Del Rey, in the twin tower on Admiralty.

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MARCH 26, 2013

The startup accelerator will actually based based at USC's Information Sciences Institute in Marina Del Rey. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Marina Del Rey-based Tribogenics , the developer of X-ray technology being aimed at enabling handheld, ultra-miniature portable x-rays, has raised $6.2M in a Series A funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by the Founders Fund.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2014

A direct competitor to Marina Del Rey-based free texting and phone service provider TextPlus said today that it has raised a huge, $280M funding round for its services. Silicon Valley-based Tango raised the giant funding round from Chinese company Alibaba, which reportedly valued Tango at around $1 billion.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2015

funding round. The company offers up many features familiar to on-demand app users, including emailed photos of your items and SMS pick up and scheduling. Names of the seed investors in the company were not announced. The company is led by Ajay Prakash. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 31, 2011

Marina Del Rey-based Six Degree Games , the developer of online virtual worlds for children, has raised another $4.0M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm late Friday. No details on the funding have yet been announced by the company, which is run by Minard Hamilton. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Marina del Rey-based Cooking.com has raised $13.5M in a debt and preferred equity round of funding, according to investment firm BIA Digital Partners II, LP. The funding will go towards growth of the company's flagship site, as well as build out of its e-commerce and enterprise products. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Marina Del Rey-based Twenty20 is taking aim at the stock photography market, announcing this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series A funding and launched its commercial image catalog out of beta. The company said that those mobile photos have already been used by West Elm, Washio and The Audience.

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MAY 25, 2010

Marina del Rey-based AuctionPoint , which operates an online auction service for commercial real estate, said today that it has received a strategic investment from Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace. The company said the new funding will go towards accelerating the firm's nationwide expansion. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

One of the companies working on that effort is Marina Del Rey-based Carbonics (www.carbonicsinc.com), which recently raised $5.5M in a venture funding round, to transform carbon nanomaterials research from UCLA and USC and bring it to market. We haven''t shown that yet, and no person has shown that.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Kevin Winston: Digital LA's biggest news of 2016 was celebrating our fifth annual Silicon Beach Fest, with more than 2,000 attendees at the Marina del Rey Hotel. When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. Some companies run out of money and fold, like Vrideo.

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MARCH 19, 2019

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. Disraeli also recently was appointed as CEO of the company. How did the company start? It certainly didn't happen overnight.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

It was the 10 th consecutive quarter that venture firms put at least $10 billion into startups and other high-tech companies, including a $3.5 There were 11 “megadeals” during the quarter, in which companies raised at least $100 million from investors, including four late-stage “expansion” deals. based companies raised almost $15.8

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

. ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you.

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